Grain-shocking machine.



C. R. RANEY.

GRAIN SHOCKING MACHINE.

APPucATloN FILED JULY 14. 1913.

Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

UNirED STATES rnrnivr ortica.

CLEMMA B. BANEY, F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNATIONAL HAR* VESTEB COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY. v L

GBAIN-'SHOCKING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application mea my 14, 191s. serial no. 778,935.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLEMMA R. RANEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grain-Shocking Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to grain shocking machines.

It has among its objects to hold the sheaves in a shock receptacle and particularly the uppermost sheaves delivered in building a shock of the horizontal type, ,in such a position in the receptacle as to facilitate the binding of the shock and the setting of the same. A further objectl of my invention -is to produce means of the character set forth which, while engagin the sheaves and preventing shifting thereo will, nevertheless, enable the sheaves to vbe delivered readily to the receptacle while the shock is being built and also will permit the free discharge of the completed shock from the receptacle.

I attain these objects by an improved con- Y struction wherein one or more sheaf engaging or holding members preferably resiliently connected, engage the sheaves and hold them against shifting in the receptacle, these members being disposed in the path of the sheaves delivered to the receptacle, and bein yieldable in one direction to permit the de ivery of such sheaves and, preferably in another direction, to permit the shock to be set.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown, for purposes of illustration, one emp l l bodiment which my invention may assume in practice.

In these drawings:

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of a shocker equipped with my improvement.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the construction shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the retarding springs.

The shocker shown is of standard type comprising a wheeled frame 1 having a rearwardly tilting cradle or sheaf receptacle 2 of suitable construction normally reclining thereon and operated through link connections 3 from the usual shocker knotter shaft 4; the sheaves being delivered to this cradle and built up into aprostrate shock therein by any suitable mechanism, such, for instance, as the fork mechanism described in my applilcation, Serial No. 573,106, filedl July 21, 19 0.

The shocker frame 1 is provided with-ao` plurality of upstanding arms or standards 5 and 6 on opposite sidesithereof -which are fixed at the rear end thereof. These mem-v bers 5 and 6 are preferably carried at the rear end of the frame at points at the sides and intermediate the ends of the cradle 2, preferably slightly nearer the pivot of the latter upon the frame. One of these standards 5 is shown to be of bowed integral construction, while ythe opposite standard 6 is shown to be formed of angle material. As shown, the standard 6 is also preferably disposed slightly in rear of the standard. Uponthe upper end of each of these standards are one or more bundle enga-ging or holding membersQ, a plurality of the same being shown herein, ositioned one above v the other onl each stan ard and having their free ends protruding transversely into the interval between the standards and above the bottom of the cradle 2. These members 9 are preferably resiliently connected to the standards, and assume herein the form of springs coiled at points adjacent the standards and secured to the llatter by means of bolts 10 and nuts l1, one endvof each spring preferably being coiled around its bolt 10 between the nut 11 anda positioning member 12. As shown, each of these members 12 is provided with a slot 13 therein, through which extends a coperating U-shaped spring holding member 14 preferably bolted Patented Nov. 20,1917.

to the other side of the support by the bolt I 10 (Fig. 3), and projecting laterally throughV the coiled portion of the spring. The free end of each of these members 9 preferably also extends, as shown, out under the swinging arm of the U-shaped member 14, the free ends of the members on each side preferably protruding slightly downward, toward the center of the cradle, and part way across the path of the sheaves as shown in Fig. 1.

When the first sheaves are deposited in the cradle 2, the members 9 are momentarily depressed thereby and then spring back to their normal positions when the sheaves have passed them. As more sheaves are delivered to the cradle 2, however, and the shock is thus built higher therein, so that there is a tendency for the sheaves to shift or slide about, the members 9 become active, their free ends then springing out and gripping the sides or tops of the sheaves or forcing the same together by a lateral pressure in such a manner as to prevent any untoward movement of the bundles. When the sheaves have been bound in the cradle 2 and the latter is turned to its vertical or dumping position by the actuating mechanism 3 therefor, it is obvious that the springs 9, due to their resiliency, will yield rearwardly to permit the free discharge of the shock and then automaticallyy return to their initial position.

Itis thus seen that while the members 9 act to hold the sheaves in the cradle in such a manner as to facilitate effective shocking,

they do not in any way interfere with either the filling or dumping of the cradle and are always automatically returned to their initial positions.

W'hile I have in this application described one form which my invention may assume in practice, it is to be understood that the embodiment shown herein for purposes of illustration may be modified without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1.v In a shocking machine, a frame, a sheaf receiving member normally reclining thereon, and means carried on said frame holding the sheaves in prostrate position in said member.

Q. In a shocking machine, a frame, a sheaf receiving 4cradle normally reclining thereon, and sheaf positioning means carried on said frame projecting over said cradle and engaging the sheaves therein.

3. In a shocking machine, a frame, a cradle normally reclining thereon, and a yielding member carried on said frame projecting into the path of sheaves delivered to said cradle and holding the same in prostrate position in the latter.

'4. In a shocking machine, a frame, a cradle normally reclining thereon, and a plurality of resiliently mounted inwardly projecting bundle holding members carried on said frame on each side of said cradle and above the latter.

5. In a shocking machine, a frame, a normally prostrate sheaf receptacle carried thereby, and coperating sheaf holding members disposed above said receptacle yieldable as sheaves are deposited prostrate therein.

6. In a shocking machine, a tilting normally prostrate sheaf receptacle, and coperating sheail holding members disposed above said receptacle yieldable as sheaves are deposited prostrate therein and as said receptacle is tilted to discharge said sheaves.

' 7. In a shocking machine. a frame, a sheaf receptacle normally reclining thereon. and sheaf holding members carried on said frame said receptacle is tilted 'to discharge the sheaves therein.l

10. In a shocking machine, a frame, a tilting sheaf receptacle normally reclining thereon, and sheaf holding members resiliently mounted on said frame above said receptacle yieldable downwardly as sheaves are deposited in prostrate position therein and laterally as said receptacle is tilted to discharge the sheaves therein.

1l. In a'shocking machine, a frame, a cradle normally reclining thereon, and means carried on said frame above said cradle yieldable to permit sheaves to be deposited prostrate in said cradle and engaging said sheaves'4 to hold the saine in position when the latter have reached a predetermined height.

l2. In a shocking machine, a frame, a'

tilting sheaf receptacle pivoted thereto and normally. reclining thereon, standards projecting upward from said frame on opposite sides of said receptacle, and a downwardly and laterally yieldable sheaf holding member mounted on each of said standards above said receptacle.

13. In a shocking machine, a frame, an upwardly and rearwardly tiltable shock receptacle normally reclining thereon, anda downwardly and rearwardly yicldable shea l?A holdin member carried on said frame at a point a ove said receptacle and on each side thereofl engageable with sheaves therein.

14. In ashocking machine, a frame, a tilting sheaf receptacle pivoted thereto and normally reclining thereon, standards projecting upward from said frame on opposite sides of said receptacle, and a downwardly and laterally yieldable resiliently mounted sheaf holding member carried on each ofvsaid standards above said receptacle.

15. In al shocking machine, a frame, a cradle mounted thereon, standards on said frame protruding upward on opposite sides of said cradle, and a plurality of spaced resilient downwardly extending bundle holding members carried on each of said standards and protruding toward each other in the interval between said standards.

16. In a shocking machine, a frame having a plurality of `upwardly extendin standards at its rear end, a cradle 'carrie on said frame between said standards, and a plurality of series of inwardly and downwardly extending springs attached to said standards at a point abovesaid cradle and protruding into the path of sheaves delivered thereto.

17. In a shocking machine, a frame, vertically extending standards on opposite sides.

site end, means for attaching-the coiled endv of said spring to said standard, and atsubstantially U-shaped member attached to said standard by said attaching means having its tion of said spring and the free end yof said spring extending beneath the bowed portion thereof. v

19'. In a shocking machine, a frame, ay

standard thereon, a spring coiled at one end and having an elongated shank at its opposite end,means for attaching the coiled end of said spring to said standard, a substantially U-shaped member attached to said standard by said attaching means having its free end protruding through the coiled portion of said spring and the free end of said spring extending beneath the bowed portion thereof, and a holding clip having an opening through which said U-shaped member extends clamped to said standard by the attaching means for said spring.

20. In a shocking machine, a frame, a cradlelnormally reclining thereon, a plurality of resiliently mounted inwardly projecting bundle holding members carried on said frame on each .side of saidcradleand above the latter, andy means preventing upward movement of said holding members.

21. In a shocking machine, a4 Jframe, a

norm-ally prostrate sheaf receptacle carried thereby, coperating sheaf holding members mounted on said frame and disposed above said receptacle and yieldable as sheaves are Vdeposited therein, and means preventing upward movement of said holding members. 22. In' a shocking machine, aI frame, a

sheaf receptacle-normally reclining thereon, sheaf holding members carried on said free end protruding through the coiled porframe above said receptacle and yieldable downwardly as sheaves are deposited in prostrate position therein, and means preventing upward movement of Said holding members.

In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature, in the presence lof two witnesses. y

. CLEMMA R. RANEY. l/Vitnesses:

GEO. WAYCHOFF, CHAs. D. SCOTT. 

